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Introduction
This program has been written in frustration because some constructs
in LaTeX are sometimes non-intuitive, and easy to forget. It is _not_
a replacement for the built-in checker in LaTeX; however it catches
some typographic errors LaTeX oversees. In other words, it is Lint for
LaTeX. Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of CWEB
documents.
It is written in ANSI C and compiles silently under GCC using ``-Wall
-ansi -pedantic'' and almost all warning flags. This means that you
can compile & use the program on your favorite machine. Full source
included.
The program also supports output formats suitable for further
processing by editors or other programs, making errors easy to cycle
through. Software is provided for beautifully interfacing against the
AUC-TeX Emacs mode, CygnusED, GoldEd and various Amiga message
browsers.
The program itself does not have any machine requirements; Amiga,
MSDOS and OS/2 binaries are available. Of course, you'll need ARexx
and ScMsg or VBrowse to benefit from the ARexx scripts.
Features
ChkTeX begins to get quite a few bells & whistles now. However, you
should be aware of that in most cases, all this is transparent to the
user. As you will see, ChkTeX offers the ability to adapt to many
environments and configurations.
New features
Modifications and additions since v1.4:
Program
Modifications to the executable itself:
* As usual, a few more warnings:
+ No space or similar in front/after parenthesis.
+ Demands a consistent quote style.
+ Double spaces in input which will not be rendered as one.
+ Punctuation malplaced regarding to math mode.
+ Warns about TeX primitives.
+ Space in front of footnotes.
+ Bogus \left and \right commands.
* The abbreviation recognizer has (for the last time?) been
redesigned. We now produce far less false warnings, catch more
cases and do all this faster than before. Seems like a win.
Done much of the same with the italic correction detection part,
too...
* Some bugs have been silently fixed. Hot spots in the program have
been optimized; in certain cases this in fact doubles the speed!
Along with this goes more code elegance and utilization of macro
processing and the C language. Take a look at ``Resource.[ch]''.
* It's possible to specify separate output-formats depending on
whether you are sending the output to a file/pipe or to a
terminal.
* Column positions are finally correct; we now expand tabs
correctly.
* ChkTeX will now recursively search for \input'ed files, both in
the document and on the commandline. See the ``chktexrc'' file for
more info.
* The debug switch is now more intelligent; if you wish to hack a
bit on ChkTeX for yourself, it is possible to produce selective
debugging output. The feature can also be disabled altogether.
* MS-DOS and OS/2 version of the program is now more flexible and
well-behaved, thanks to Gerd Böhm.
* You may now say ``-wall'' to make all messages warnings, and turn
them on.
* Uses termcap on UNIX boxes; this should ensure that ``-v2'' (or
more precisely: ``%i'' and ``%I'') works regardless to what
terminal you are using.
Resource file
New concepts introduced in the setup file:
* You may now specify both case-sensitive and case-insensitive user
patterns in the ``chktexrc'' file. In addition; it is now possible
to reset/clear lists.
* It is possible to specify how many arguments (optional/required)
``WIPEARG'' should wipe; it behaves also somewhat more intelligent
when the arguments stretch over multiple lines.
* Global files will be read _in addition_ to local ones. The
searching order has also been reversed in order to make this more
intelligent.
Other
Various other stuff I've done to the product:
* The documentation has been polished and should now be easier to
use in practical situations.
* ``check'' target in ``Makefile'', so you can check that the
installation succeeded. In fact, the ``Makefile'' has been
enhanced in several other ways too, amongst other it is now GNU
conforming.
* ``deweb'' is now documented; you may say ``man deweb'' to get a
few words of advice. The support script (chkweb) does now behave
as the remaining package (accepting stdin input and flags).
* I've written an Emacs hack which magically adds ChkTeX to the list
of AUC-TeX commands; thus making the use of the program even more
trivial.
For those of you who don't wish to mess with Emacs, I've included
a trivial lacheck <-> ChkTeX interface.
This means that you now can use ChkTeX just as easily as lacheck
when you're running AUC-TeX.
* Added an ARexx script which lets ChkTeX talk to VBrowse, the
message browser of Volker Barthelmann's freely distributable ANSI
C compiler. The browser itself is available on Aminet as
``dev/c/vbcc.lha''.
Feature list
* Supports over 40 warnings. Warnings include:
+ Commands terminated with space. Ignores ``\tt'', etc.
+ Space in front of references instead of ``~''.
+ Forgetting to group parenthesis characters when
sub-/superscripting.
+ Italic correction (``\/'') mistakes (double, missing,
unnecessary).
+ Parenthesis and environment matching.
+ Ellipsis detection; also checks whether to use ``\dots'',
``\cdots'' or ``\ldots''.
+ Enforcement of normal space after abbreviation. Detects most
abbreviations automagically.
+ Enforcement of end-of-sentence space when the last sentence
ended with capital letter.
+ Math-mode on/off detection.
+ Quote checking, both wrong types (``"'') and wrong direction.
+ Recommends splitting three quotes in a row.
+ Searching for user patterns.
+ Displays comments.
+ Space in front of ``\label'' and similar commands.
+ Use of ``x'' instead of ``$\times$'' between numbers.
+ Multiple spaces in input which will be rendered as one space
(or multiple spaces, where that is undesirable).
+ Warns about text which may be ignored.
+ Mathematical operators typeset as variables.
+ No space in front of/after parenthesis.
+ Demands a consistent quote style.
+ Punctuation inside inner math mode/outside display math mode.
+ Use of TeX primitives where LaTeX equivalents are available.
+ Space in front of footnotes.
+ Bogus characters following commands.
* Fully customizable. Intelligent resource format makes it possible
to make ChkTeX respect your LaTeX setup. Even command-line options
may be specified globally in the ``chktexrc'' file.
* Supports ``\input'' command; both TeX and LaTeX version. Actually
includes the files. ``TEXINPUTS''-equivalent search path.
* Intelligent warning/error handling. The user may promote/mute
warnings to suit his preferences. You may also mute warnings in
the header of a file; thus killing much unwanted garbage.
* Scripts included for checking CWEB files written in LaTeX.
(Requires perl v5).
* Supports both LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e.
* Flexible output handling. Has some predefined formats and lets the
user specify his own format. Uses a ``printf()'' similar syntax.
``lacheck'' compatible mode included for interfacing with the
AUC-TeX Emacs mode.
* ARexx scripts for interfacing with ScMsg and VBrowse are included.
Special scripts included for CygnusED/GoldED, for binding to
hotkey.
* Amiga Workbench support. Parameters may be passed by
shift-clicking the LaTeX files and setting the remaining options
in the tooltypes.
* Wildcard matching (Amiga only). Matches file patterns internally,
thus saving a lot of work. This is, however, platform-specific
code -- on UNIX boxes this is done by the shell.
* Written in ANSI C. ``configure'' script included for easy setup
and installation on UNIX systems.
Still, it is important to realize that the output from ChkTeX is only
intended as a _guide_ to fixing faults. However, it is by no means
always correct. This means that correct LaTeX code may produce errors
in ChkTeX, and vice versa: Incorrect LaTeX code may pass silently
through.
Legal stuff
ChkTeX, documentation, installations scripts, CWEB filters and other
materials provided are copyright © 1995-96 Jens T. Berger Thielemann,
unless explicitly stated otherwise.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to:
The Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Mass Ave
Cambridge
MA 02139
USA
Registration
`ChkTeX' is made available under the concept of Gift-Ware, which is a
variant of Share-Ware. Share-Ware software authors often release
`crippled' versions of their products, i.e. these programs do not
support the same functionality as the registered versions you get when
sending monetary contributions to the authors. It all comes down to
`pay for the software you are using' in Share-Ware terms. With
Gift-Ware registration it is different, you are not required to
contribute money, but a gift will do. With `ChkTeX' you always get a
fully functional program, there is no `crippled' test release which
you can try for a limited time and then have to pay for in order to
receive the working registered version.
It may seem as if `ChkTeX' was free, but this is not the case.
Although there is no need to pay the author in order to get a fully
functional version of the program you should consider making a
contribution. You don't need to feel guilty if you cannot or do not
want to give me something in return for the work I have put into
`ChkTeX'. Show me that it was worth spending so much time listening to
users, updating, rewriting and enhancing this program. Your
contributions will provide the motivation for me to keep developing
the program.
Send your contribution to the following address:
Jens Berger
Spektrumvn. 4
N-0666 Oslo
Norway
Availability
This program will be uploaded to AmiNet and CTAN; thus it can be found
at any mirrors of those.
Please note that earlier versions of ChkTeX have been uploaded to
Aminet under the same archive name, to keep consistent with Aminet's
policy of keeping versions out of filenames. Please read the file
``ChkTeX.readme'' (which is in the same directory as the archive) to
find out the version number.
I'm now uploading the archive uncompressed to CTAN; however, most of
the ftpservers in that network allow you to retrieve a directory
compressed in whatever way you prefer. Aminet will as usual receive a
LhArc archive.
Mirrors of both networks include:
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
Directory: support/chktex
* ftp://ftp.adfa.oz.au/pub/tex/ctan/, (Australia)
* ftp://ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au/tex-archive/, (Australia)
* ftp://gw.pacbell.com/mirror/ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/,
(California, USA)
* ftp://sunsite.queensu.ca/pub/tex-archive/, (Canada)
* ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/, (Deutschland)
* ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/packages/TeX/, (Deutschland)
* ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/dante/, (Deutschland)
* ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/tex /, (England)
* ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/tex/uk-tex/, (England)
* ftp://kadri.ut.ee/pub/tex/, (Estonia)
* ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/, (Finland)
* ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub4/TeX/CTAN/, (France)
* ftp://ftp.loria.fr/pub/unix/tex/ctan/, (France)
* ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/TeX/CTAN/, (Hong Kong)
* ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/TeX/, (Italia)
* ftp://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/pub/TeX/, (Italia)
* ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/tex-archive/, (Japan)
* ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/packages/TeX/, (Missouri, USA)
* ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/tex/, (New York, USA)
* ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/, (North Carolina, USA)
* ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/TeX/, (North Carolina, USA)
* ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CTAN/, (Poland)
* ftp://ftpserver.nus.sg/pub/zi/TeX/, (Singapore)
* ftp://ftp.ee.up.ac.za/tex-archive/, (South Africa)
* ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/tex/, (Switzerland)
* ftp://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/tex-archive/, (Taiwan)
* ftp://ftp.ccu.edu.tw/pub/tex/, (Taiwan)
* ftp://ftp.fcu.edu.tw/pub2/tex/, (Taiwan)
* ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/pub/tex/, (Texas, USA)
* ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/tex/CTAN/, (The Czech Republic)
* ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/tex-archive/, (The Netherlands)
* ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/text-processing/TeX/, (Virginia, USA)
* ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/, (West coast, USA)
* ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/, (\"Osterreich)
Aminet
I'm only uploading the Amiga version of the archive to Aminet (so that
unsuspecting Amiga users won't have to download hundreds of unwanted
kilobytes). If you wish to use ChkTeX on another machine, please refer
to CTAN.
Directory: text/tex/, filename: chktex.lha
* ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (USA (MO))
* ftp://ftp.netnet.net/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (USA (WI))
* ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (USA (AZ))
* ftp://ftp.livewire.com.au/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Australia)
* ftp://ftp.tas.gov.au/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Australia)
* ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Scandinavia)
* ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Switzerland)
* ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.pb.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.fh-augsburg.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/,
(Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Germany)
* ftp://sunsite.cnam.fr/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (France)
* ftp://aminet.grolier.fr/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (France)
* ftp://ftp.giga.or.at/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Austria)
* ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Denmark)
* ftp://ftp.acropolis.gr/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Greece)
* ftp://aminet.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/pub/aminet/text/tex/,
(Hungary)
* ftp://ftp.italy.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Italy)
* ftp://ftp.man.szczecin.pl/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Poland)
* ftp://ftp.portugal.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Portugal)
* ftp://ftp.gui.uva.es/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (Spain)
* ftp://ftp.uk.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (UK)
* ftp://micros.hensa.ac.uk/pub/aminet/text/tex/, (UK)
Installation
A few words on installation on various platforms:
_Amiga:_
Use the supplied Installer script.
_MS-DOS & OS/2:_
Copy the binary (``ChkTeX.exe'') to somewhere in your path, and
place the ``chktexrc'' file in the same directory.
If you're running Emacs, you may wish to copy the file
``chktex.el'' to your elisp source directory, and add the
following line to your ``.emacs'' file:
(require 'chktex)
_UNIX:_
Type ``configure'', ``make'' and finally ``make install''. To
make sure everything proceeded correctly, type ``make check''.
If you don't have superuser privileges and thus access to the
default system areas, you should type ``configure -help'' to
help you set up correct paths.
If you haven't installed any software like this before, that is
distributed in source form, here are some guidelines to help
you install it locally at your account. Please note that a mail
to the system administrator may be less work for you. :-)
We assume that you have put the archive (``chktex.tar.gz'') in
a subdir of yours, with path ``~/tmp''. We further assume that
your shell is ``csh'' or ``tcsh''. Do the following:
1. First of all, unpack the archive contents.
> cd ~/tmp
> gunzip chktex.tar.gz
> tar xf chktex.tar
2. Now, we can configure the program. There are some
configuration options you should know about:
_``-enable-emacs-hack'':_
Install a small file which adds ChkTeX to the
command menu of AUC-TeX. This is to be considered
as a hack, and may break in future versions of
AUC-TeX. It works fine under AUC-TeX v2.9, though.
This option needs the path of your elisp directory
as argument, e.g.
``-enable-emacs-hack=/home/myself/elisp'' or
similar.
You'll also have to add the following line to your
``.emacs'' file:
(require 'chktex)
You can now access ChkTeX from the ``Command'' menu in
AUC-TeX. To cycle through the messages, type C-x `.
_``-enable-lacheck-replace''_
This enables a quick hack for making the AUC-TeX
Emacs mode use ChkTeX instead of lacheck. This is
done by installing a stub script which
``overrides'' the original lacheck executable.
While more stable than the previous solution, this
is also significantly less elegant -- in computing
terms, this is the ``brute force'' approach.
_``-enable-debug-info''_
ChkTeX has an ability to spit out various
diagnostic messages using the ``-d'' flag. This
behaviour is on by default. By adding the flag
``-disable-debug-info'' to the commandline, this
will not be compiled in.
This may be useful if you're running short of disk
space (the time savings are neglible).
If you are installing the program on your local account, use
the following command:
> configure --prefix ~/
Add eventual extra flags as specified above. This command
will generate a significant amount of output, this can
usually be ignored.
3. Finally, we can just build the program and install it.
> make
> make install
4. Finished! The program is now installed and ready to use. You
may now tell other people to put your bindir in their path in
order to benefit from your work. All that remains is to make
the shell aware of your installation.
> rehash
To make the remaining parts of your system aware of this,
you'll have to log out and re-log in, I'm afraid. However,
you should delay this until you've completed this
installation procedure.
5. If you wish to make sure that everything is OK (you ought
to), you may now ask ChkTeX to do a self-test:
> make check
_Other platforms:_
First of all, you have to copy the ``config.h.in'' file to a
file named ``config.h''. Then, edit it to reflect your system.
Do the same with ``OpSys.h'' (this file has been reduced
significantly). If you wish, you may define ``DATADIR'' to the
path you want the global resource file to be put.
Now, I would suggest that you take a peak at the ``OpSys.c''
file, and edit it appropiately, for more comfort. This should
not be necessary, though, at least not the first time.
Finally, you may now compile and link all .cfiles. Define
``HAVE_CONFIG_H'' to 1 (on the command-line, for instance). If
the ``config.h'' you wish to use has another name, define
``CONFIG_H_NAME'' to that (in that case, don't define
``HAVE_CONFIG_H'').
Put the directory path of the ``chktexrc'' file in a
environment variable named ``CHKTEXRC''. The files ``deweb.in''
and ``chkweb'' should be moved to a directory in your path.
These files may need further setup, as they haven't got the
location of perl initialized.
If your compiler/the compiled program complains (or crashes!),
you may try the hints listed below. Please note that it only
makes sense to try these hints if your compiler fails to
produce a working program.
1. Increase the preprocessor buffers and line buffers. The
ChkTeX sources define macros sized 3-4k (expanding to about
the same), and passes arguments sized about 1k.
2. Use the magic switch which lets us use large
``switch(...){...}'' statements; some of these statements
have about 120 ``case'' entries.
3. The sources require that at least the first 12 of each
identifier is significant.
_Note:_ You _must_ install the new ``chktexrc'' file; ChkTeX will fail
to function unless!
After doing this, you may enhance ChkTeX' behaviour by reading/editing
the ``chktexrc'' file.
Contacting the author
If you wish to contact me for any reason or would like to participate
in the development of ChkTeX, please write to:
Jens Berger
Spektrumvn. 4
N-0666 Oslo
Norway
E-mail: <jensthiifi.uio.no>
Any signs of intelligent life are welcomed; that should exclude
piracy.
Have fun.
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